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Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003

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Part 2 –Standards

Chapter 10 – Supplementary and General
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Section 139: Information obtained by CSCI: Supplementary

298.This section provides that the CSCI may use any information it obtains or is provided with during the course of its functions for the purposes of any of its other functions. For example, where the CSCI obtains information as a result of inspecting a children’s home in exercise of its functions under Part II of the CSA 2000, that a child placed there may have suffered harm it may use this information to evaluate the performance of the local authority that placed the child there.

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